One Woman, One Year, 200 Books
I was just offered the Teaching Assistantship at BSU that I applied for earlier this year. I got passed up in the first round but am very grateful for they decided they wanted/needed me after all.
I’m going to be PAID to go to SCHOOL. If you know me, you know this is my dream job…
Happy [...]
Yes, I am still here. Still reading Augustine. Dipping into The Critical Companion of The Master and Margarita. Rereading a bit of Wodehouse here and there. Eagerly previewing my new Easton Press edition of Bocaccio’s The Decameron. And working on book lists.
This is a list for my younger sister. She asked me to tell her [...]
…about what kind of mother I am.
Yes. Those are my babies. In their pajamas. Eating a tub of leftover brownies for breakfast. They are homemade if that helps.
I promise I didn’t drop off the face of the earth. I do have a nasty cold which has involved days of aches and pains, sore throat and hacking up phlegm (..TMI…I know…). But I have also been busily writing. I have a good outline except for the last few chapters of the book, Chapter [...]
Courtesy of Borders.
ME: “Do you have a hardcover copy of St Augustine’s City of God?”
HER: (typing into her computer) “You mean Augusten Burroughs?”
ME: *slaps forehead* “NO! The fourth century saint! Moron.”
Ok…I didn’t really say that last bit…